Porn: The New Narcotic

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Why would porn be literally addictive? I don't get it. We are entirely too quick to label things as addictions. Yes, if you do x and it's pleasurable, you are more inclined to do thing x again. Is that all that we mean? Because that learned behavior applies to just about anything.

The article claims changes to the brain as a result of porn.  That is why I would have liked more information about the study and how it was conducted? 

 

Any repetitive activity will change the brain, that seems trivial to me.

 

If there are actual changes in the brain, then the article has merit.  The changes in the brain create an addiction. 

 

Every time you learn a new skill your brain changes. That's how learning works.

[Guest Butero]

 

 

 

 

Why would porn be literally addictive? I don't get it. We are entirely too quick to label things as addictions. Yes, if you do x and it's pleasurable, you are more inclined to do thing x again. Is that all that we mean? Because that learned behavior applies to just about anything.

The article claims changes to the brain as a result of porn.  That is why I would have liked more information about the study and how it was conducted? 

 

Any repetitive activity will change the brain, that seems trivial to me.

 

If there are actual changes in the brain, then the article has merit.  The changes in the brain create an addiction. 

 

Every time you learn a new skill your brain changes. That's how learning works.

 

This article speaks of actual changes in the way the brain works.  I don't think the article is making light of pornography or making excuses for those involved in it?  It came across more like a warning to avoid it when I read it.  Did you read the article? 

[Fez]

 

 

 

 

Why would porn be literally addictive? I don't get it. We are entirely too quick to label things as addictions. Yes, if you do x and it's pleasurable, you are more inclined to do thing x again. Is that all that we mean? Because that learned behavior applies to just about anything.

The article claims changes to the brain as a result of porn.  That is why I would have liked more information about the study and how it was conducted? 

 

Any repetitive activity will change the brain, that seems trivial to me.

 

If there are actual changes in the brain, then the article has merit.  The changes in the brain create an addiction. 

 

Every time you learn a new skill your brain changes. That's how learning works.

 

Kind of like every time you study the Word.

 

Paul tells us to renew our minds.

[Guest DRS81]

I just got done watching DVD (Addiction starring Courtney Madison). Very informative. As christians we should be aware of these things and how to take up our cross the right way.

[Guest ninhao]

 

If there are actual changes in the brain, then the article has merit.  The changes in the brain create an addiction. 

 

 

Yes. This is interesting.

 

But, Bennett says, “internet pornography does more than just spike the level of dopamine in the brain for a pleasure sensation. It literally changes the physical matter within the brain so that new neurological pathways require pornographic material in order to trigger the desired reward sensation.”

 

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Why would porn be literally addictive? I don't get it. We are entirely too quick to label things as addictions. Yes, if you do x and it's pleasurable, you are more inclined to do thing x again. Is that all that we mean? Because that learned behavior applies to just about anything.

because it stimulates the same pleasure centers as does heroin.

 

people who get really addicted to porn get to the point they had rather do porn than sex itself....   it will literally destroy a marriage....

 

 

on a side note i don't think bopeep understands what levels porn today has reached........   and that is very refreshing to me.

[alphaparticle]

 

Why would porn be literally addictive? I don't get it. We are entirely too quick to label things as addictions. Yes, if you do x and it's pleasurable, you are more inclined to do thing x again. Is that all that we mean? Because that learned behavior applies to just about anything.

because it stimulates the same pleasure centers as does heroin.

 

people who get really addicted to porn get to the point they had rather do porn than sex itself....   it will literally destroy a marriage....

 

 

on a side note i don't think bopeep understands what levels porn today has reached........   and that is very refreshing to me.

 

Yes, people also have affairs and destroy their marriages. That doesn't mean they have addictions. It means they make bad choices. They wouldn't be doing this if it weren't pleasurable, so what? I think we are entirely too quick to label things as 'addictive' and explain bad behavior in terms of addiction rather than people just doing dumb or wrong things.

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I would not compare it to narcotics. I don't find that a useful analogy insofar a narcotics involve physically flooding your system with neurotransmitters that your brain then ceases to make on its own and an equivalent thing is not occurring when people indulge in porn.

you might want to spend sometime here

 

http://innergold.hubpages.com/hub/Pornography-Addiction-is-a-Brain-Disease

 

 

http://yourbrainonporn.com/pornography-addiction-a-neuroscience-perspective-2011

 

 

http://www.netnanny.com/learn_center/article/175/

 

http://www.fightthenewdrug.org/science/articles/THE-CHEMICALS-BEHIND-THE-ADDICTION/

[Guest man]

 I think we are entirely too quick to label things as 'addictive' and explain bad behavior in terms of addiction rather than people just doing dumb or wrong things.

 

 

 

I agree with you here, but porn addiction is very real. It's not about just looking at naked people having sex, it's about that physical sensation that goes with it. If that sensation were missing, people won't be so attracted to it.

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 I think we are entirely too quick to label things as 'addictive' and explain bad behavior in terms of addiction rather than people just doing dumb or wrong things.

 

 

 

I agree with you here, but porn addiction is very real. It's not about just looking at naked people having sex, it's about that physical sensation that goes with it. If that sensation were missing, people won't be so attracted to it.

 

Yeah but that is true about most activities humans are engaged in, or want to be engaged in. People are tempted by things because they find them pleasant at some level. This for me is a semantics issue. What should and should not addiction count as? At what point does the word not become helpful? This is combined with the fact that addiction is often a word used to excuse people from responsibility to what amounts to poor choices.